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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

Joseph Campbell

It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Demon Himself Man Tame World
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Divine Follow God Message Power Word Yourself
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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Influence Journey Person Save World
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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Alone Darkness Decision Grace Journey
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Life Move Order Planning Time Wait Yourself
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Fascination Fire Interest Mystery
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Consciousness Spiritual Thinking Transformation True
If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Follow Life Oneself Yourself
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Ability Adventure Heart Inspirational Yourself
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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End Fact Ignorance Ourselves
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship

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